I've been using Fin/Mac 2011 on a new machine (MacBook Air, 10.9.5) and the
program now seems to default to dotted half and dotted quarter rests in 4/4
when copying partial measures. It's only seems to be a problem with the
rests Finale fills in around what has been copied--copied rests are
It's been a while since I had to adjust this on my system, but there are two
settings to look at:
Allow dotted rests
Soften syncopations
Both are under MIDI/Audio Quantization Settings… (at least that's where they
are in Finale 2012. Can't recall 2011's location, but it's there.
J D Thomas
Postscript:
There are two settings for allow dotted rests, one each for simple and compound
meters.
On Oct 5, 2014, at 8:01 AM, Don Hart donhartmu...@gmail.com wrote:
I've been using Fin/Mac 2011 on a new machine (MacBook Air, 10.9.5) and the
program now seems to default to dotted half and
A beautiful thing, J D! Found it in the same place in 2011--thank you so
much! Not really a quantization problem in this situation so I was looking
in preferences. Silly me. ;-)
Don
On Sun, Oct 5, 2014 at 11:18 AM, j...@thomastudios.com j...@thomastudios.com
wrote:
It's been a while since
I have always wished that Finale did not use dotted half and dotted quarter
rests in 4/4 of 2/2 time. When there are 3 quarters of rest at the beginning of
a bar, I think it is proper to use a half plus a quarter rest, not a dotted
half. When Finale completes a bar where you have entered just a
